slow down internet?

Is there some way to eather slow down my connection or use a browser plugin or something to test my websites to see on how they would react on slower connections?

I am not too sure on where would be a good spot to put this subject....

Don2007

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3+ Months Ago

Maybe someone here has a dialup connection. They can tell you how the site loads.

demonmaestro

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3+ Months Ago

its a site i am working on and i have it under passcode to get to.

Don2007

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3+ Months Ago

Why should that matter? Give the password, to the person who is testing it & change it after the test is done.

demonmaestro

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3+ Months Ago

secret project

Don2007

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Have the FBI test it. We wouldn't want to put national security at risk.

Bigwebmaster

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3+ Months Ago

I was thinking Firefox's Firebug + Pagespeed might provide you some tools to analyze how long things take to load, and areas you could improve your page. Also if you use Windows:

http://bandwidthcontroller.com/trafficShaperXp.html

That tool seems to be able to allow you to limit your connection. If you are running a Linux computer than possibly this one:

http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collabor ... king/netem

That tool appears to let you simulate packet loss, packet corruption, and rate control to limit how fast things can be downloaded.

demonmaestro

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3+ Months Ago

Don2007 wrote:

Have the FBI test it. We wouldn't want to put national security at risk.

okay its not that bad... Ya will soon see what its for..

Don2007

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3+ Months Ago

I can't wait. The suspense is killing me.

Zealous

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3+ Months Ago

you should be able to modify the network card to do what you need as you can limit speeds over a network and even if you got dual network cards you can set one to send and the other to receive so you have faster processing over the network.

I was shown that years ago by a master system admin, he did some good stuff.